attacks were carried out at West Rampura

Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of ruling Awami League, allegedly launched attacks on Juba League, another front organisation of the ruling party, during an anti-shutdown protest rally, in the capital, leaving five people wounded.

The attacks were carried out at West Rampura in the city around 11 am on Thursday.

The injured who are not identified yet were taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).

A special day to collect tax

Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has suggested the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to fix a special day to collect tax.

“If NBR fixes a day, people will be able pay tax on the day”, the minister said this at the launching ceremony of three day-long income tax fair at the Officers Club on Thursday.

A three day-long income tax fair ‘Winter Tax Fair’ began on Thursday to encourage people for paying income tax to widen the tax net.

NBR is organising the fair in seven divisional headquarters including Dhaka for the first time in the country.

Khaleda Zia will return to Dhaka from London on Saturday

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is likely to return Dhaka on Saturday from London where she went for treatment.

Confirming this to risingbd, Khaleda`s lawyer Sanaullah Mia said that a ticket was booked for a flight of Emirates Airlines on November 20. She is likely to return Dhaka the following day on November 21 (Saturday).

Quader Chowdhury 's family members at Dhaka Central Jail

Family members of death-row convicts Salauddin Quader Chowdhury have reached Dhaka Central Jail to meet him.

They reached there around 12:20 pm on Thursday.

Earlier, Hummam Quader Chowdhury, son of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, said that they got vocal permission from the jail authority and will take in a written permission reaching there.

Jahangir Kabir, senior jail super of the Dhaka Central Jail, also confirmed this to risingbd.

The Appellate Division of Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentences for BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for committing crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.

SQ Chowdhury has been kept in the condemned cell in the Dhaka Central Jail after verdict of the Appellate Division.

Mohammad Mojaheed Family at Dhaka Central Jail

Family members of Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, who got death penalties over war-time crimes, have reached Dhaka Central Jail to meet him.

They reached there around 12:15 pm on Thursday. Earlier, in the morning, they filed an application to meet Mojaheed.

Review petition of death row convicts BNP leader

The Appellate Division of Supreme Court will very soon publish the full reports of the review petition verdicts of death row convicts BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.

The Appellate Division headed by chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha told this to Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on Thursday morning.

The Attorney General told newsmen on Thursday morning that he sought full verdicts on the review petitions of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed in the morning while the Appellate Division said that not briefs; it will publish the full verdicts very soon.

Meanwhile, the death-row convicts Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed have been kept in the condemned cells in Dhaka Central Jail.

After hearing on two separate review petitions on Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentences for two leaders for committing crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.

Relatives will meet Salauddin Quader Chowdhury

Family members of death-row convicts BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury will meet him today.

They will meet him before noon on Thursday at Dhaka Central Jail, confirmed Hummam Quader Chowdhury, son of SQ, to risingbd.

Hummam said that they got vocal permission from the jail authority and will take in a written permission reaching there.

The Appellate Division of Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentences for BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for committing crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.

SQ Chowdhury has been kept in the condemned cell in the Dhaka Central Jail after verdict of the Appellate Division.

Observers appointed four state-owned commercial banks

Bangladesh bank (BB) appointed observers to the boards of four state-owned commercial banks.

The appointment was confirmed through an executive order of the bank on Wednesday.

All of the observers are working in the Bangladesh Bank as executive directors.

Executive director and spokesman of the Bangladesh Bank Subhankar Saha said, "We want these banks work better than past."

Naushad Ali Chowdhury has been appointed observer in Sonali Bank, Ahmed Jamal in Janata Bank, Abdur Rahim in Rupali Bank and Nirmal Chandra Bhakta in Agrani Bank

Parliament must be protected

The chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Suranjit Sengupta has recommended the cancellation of registration of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) for its insulting remarks against the Parliament.

The committee chairman disclosed the matter while addressing a press conference at media center in the National Parliament on Wednesday.

He said, "Parliament must be protected. NGOs should be brought under accountability. TIB has belittled parliament. No NGO has the authority to belittle Parliament. So, its registration has to be cancelled."

"The TIB was given a three-day time to scrap its remarks on parliament, but it did not do so. It did not seek apology," Suranjit added.

The parliamentary body has already forwarded its recommendation to the NGO Affairs Bureau.

SC orders to extend war heroes retirement age

The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the High Court (HC) verdict that asked to represent a proposal to the cabinet extending service age for freedom fighters 65 years from 60.

The Appellate Divison of SC headed by chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha disposed the leave-to-appeal filed by the state and passed the order on Monday.

One Jamal Uddin, according to directions of the Prime Minister office, filed a writ petition to HC seeking to extend the age of service holder freedom fighter 65 years from 60 in 2006.

After hearing the petition, on January 14 this year, the bench of Justice Kazi Rezaul Haque and Justice Abu Taher M Saifur Rahman asked the authority concerned to represent the proposal in this regard to the cabinet meeting within 60 days.

Later, the government filed a leave-to-appeal against the verdict.

Now it has been mandatory to represent the proposal in this regard to the cabinet meeting within 60 days after publishing the copy of verdict, said the plaintiff`s lawyer Azharullah Bhuiyan.